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ORNAMENTAL STRIP FOR PICTURE FRAMES. No. 367,592. Patented Aug. 2, 1887.

INVENTOR ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDUARD BRODHAG, OF EVV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO E. & H. T. ANTHONY & COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

ORNAMENTAL STRlP FOR PICTURE-FRAMES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 367,592, dated August 2, 1887.

Application filed April 13, 1887.

To all whom it may cmwcrn:

Be it known that I, EDUARD BRODI-IAG, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in 5 Ornamenting-Strips for Picture-Frames and for other Purposes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. 7

My invention consists in a strip for ornamenting various articles, including picture 10 frames and other objects, which is composed of a hard or solid-like but fiexile flat core and a covering of soft fibrous material folded overand cemented to the core; and the invention further consists in a combination of the same with the picture-frame, substantially as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims. v

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,

no in which similarletters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a view in perspective of a piece of my improved onnamenting-strip in the course of manufacture, its component parts being shownas broken away. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal View of a similar strip in its finished condition, but before it is bent to shape; and Figs. 3 and 4: are face views showing the finished strip, after it has been bent into an ornamental shape, applied, respectively, to the inside and outside of picture-fran1es. (Shown only in part.) v

In the manufacture of my improved orna menting-strip I first take a flat strip, A, of

flexile brass, or it might be any other hard or solid-like but flexile material, including different metals or compositions, thick paper or card-board, butpreferably brass of a suitablewidth and thickness that after being bent 40 will hold its shape. This strip A, which forms the core of the article to be produced, I lay upon a wider strip, B, of plush or other soft and fluffy or fibrous ornamenting material of any suitable texture and color, but prefera- J 5 bly plush. This second strip, B, which may be of more than a single thickness, if desired, forms the covering of the article to be pro duced,and I closely and firmly unite it with the strip or core A by applying glue or other Serial No.234,591. (No model.)

cementing substance either to it or the core, or both, over their whole surfaces before, for instance, laying the strip A in its place upon the strip B. Ithen, as partly shown in Fig. 1, fold over the soft covering B onto the core A, so as to inclose thelatter within the cover- M ing, as shown in Fig. 2, and afterward press the covering cemented to the core, as described, firmly and closely to its place-as, for instance, by passing the united strips through a suitable squeezer or die, thus making of the whole .one compact strip. This compound strip may then be bent into any desired shape for different ornamenting purposes. It may be thus bent, either by hand, by molds, or otherwise, and after being bent will retain the shape given it.

Such ornamentingstrip bent into open work fancy figures and tacked to its place will be found both a light, durable, and highly ornamental appendage to photograph and other picture frames, and may either be applied to the inside of the frame 0, as shown in Fig. 3, or to the outside of aframe C, as. shown in Fig. 4, said ornamenting-strip presenting its edge to view,aud byits flat or broad construction readily admitting of being tacked or secured in place. The broad or flattened construction, too, of the ornamenting-strip gives it rigidity in direction of its width, but admits of it being flexed at differentpoints in its thickness throughout its length, whereby it is made to keep its ornamental form and to combine strength with a light, airy appearance.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. As a new article of manufacture, the within described compound ornamenting strip composed of a solid-like flexile core or band of greater width than thickness and rigid in direction of its width, but capable of being flexed at different points in its thickness throughout its length, and of a soft inclosingcovering of fibrous material cemented to and compacted with said core, substantially as specified.

2. The withiudescribed ornamenting-strip composed of a flat flcxile strip, A, of metal, or its equivalent, and of an inel0sing-covering, B, of plush, or its equivalent, cemented to and pressed to its place on the strip or core A,

5 essentially as described.

3. The combination, with a frame or support, of an attached bent ornamenting flat strip, composed of a hard or solid-like flexile core, A, and of usoftinclosing-covering, B, of fibrous material, substantially as specified.

EDUARD BRODHAG. W'itnesses: V G. SEDGWIOK, ED\VD. M. CLARK. 

